Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-08-11
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MARY E. ARMITsTEAD is Master
Workman of the Lady Kern Assembly.
Miss GRACE NORTON is charming
violinist. Her playing is one of the
chief attractions of social Cambridge.
DIR. GRACE WoLCoTT was sent as
delegate by the very conservative
Massachusetts, Medical Society to the
recent Medical convention at Chicago.
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE, now in Paris.
will 60 to the City of Mexico in Septem.
Der to arrange for the publication
there of a Spanish-American newspa-
per.
Miss MARY FRIDLEY has been elected
musical director to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Prof.
Lynch in the Georgia Musical Associa.
ton.
THOSE Japanese women who are al
lowed to read outside books are now
busy with "Pilgrim's Progress" which
has just been translated into their Ian.
guage
ABOUT one hundred of our best wom-
en- participated in the election. Munic-
ipal suffrage from women is already
success in Kansas, and is constantly
growing in popular favor.
Miss MARY l.. BOOTH, editor of Har-
per's Bdzar, has gone abroad for her
first outing in the Old World. She
will be gone several months, and will
see as many countries as possible.
Miss KATE SToNEMAN, of Albany,
N T., the first woman admitted to
the bar in that State, addressed the
senior class at Vassar College, recent
ly, on "The Higher Education of Wom-
en-"
Miss MARY ALLEN will open her
gymnasium in this city, November 22.
thus beginning her ninth year of very
successful teaching. Miss Allen has
the highest endorsement of the best
people.
Mrs. CoRT has been appointed by
Mrs. Leavitt National president of W.
C. 7. U. for Siam, and Mrs. Captain
Lotus has been elected president Of
the Bangkok Women's Christian TEN.
perance Union.
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
will be associated with Mrs. Martha j.
Lamb in editing the Magazine of amer.
ican History. She will probably take
charge of a department under her
own name.
ELISE p. BUCKINGHAM successfully
manages fruit farm of several hun
dred acres in California, and urges
other women to take up the same kind
of work, for which she thinks women
are well fitted.
Mrs MARY L. CRAMER, n sister Of
General Grant, was one of the speakers
at camp-meeting held in the old
Jones Street Methodist Church in New
York recently. The church was crowd.
ed to hear her.
DR.. CAROLINE HASTINGS. who has
been seven years dcmonstrator Of
anatomy in the Boston University
School of Medicine, has resigned the
position that she may devote herself to
her large private practice.
In the Exhibition of the Royal Acad.
cmy of Arts, London, of the paintings
and sculptures over 1000 in number,
242 are the works of women. 1t is
only fifteen years since women artists
were admitted to the Royal Academy.
NINE, MoDJEsKA is making hand
some fortune by the appreciat ion in
value of her town lots in Los Angeles.
She was a shrewder or luckier in.
vestor than her husband, for he put his
money chiefly in vineyards which are
not paying well.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE EN-.
phatically denies the story which is
circulating to the effect that she could
never have written Uncle Toms
Cabin" if she had known the colored
people as she knows them now, after q
residence at the South.
J. DIR. EMILY BLACKWELL, Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell, DIR. E. M. Cushiel
and Miss Kerrison, of New York. sailed
on the 18th of June, intending to spend
the summer in Europe. They will de
vote month to England, and give tn,
remainder of the time to a tour on tn,
continent.
MRs j. R ROBERTS. the widow o
the first President of Liberia, is collect
ing money for general hospital to b
located at Monrovia, the capital Of tn,
republic. Mrs. Roberts was very kind
| ly received by President Cleveland, VIII,
became the first contributor towar,
: the proposed hospital
: The Woman's Medical College Of tn
g New York Infrmary has celebrated it
D nineteenth anniversary. DR.. Emil
D Blackwell, the successful pioneer, sd
e ministered the oath to the graduates
: and DIR. Mary Bissell told an interest
1 ing story of the triumphs of earlIe
graduates. some Of whom are now mi
: sionaries IN India